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When Roger Ebert reviewed the original Night of the Living Dead, it was after seeing it at a matinee with a theater full of children who thought it was just another low-budget campy b-movie; halfway through, he wrote in his review, most of them had broke down crying.

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The "Puttin' on the Ritz" segment of Young Frankenstein almost didn't make it into the movie because director Mel Brooks just didn't think it was funny. Screenwriter/star Gene Wilder had to fight to keep the bit in, and it turned out to be one of the funniest sequences in the flick.

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Sean Cunningham's idea for Friday the 13th was nothing more than the title and a poster he had made. He had no concept of what the story should be until he hired Victor Miller to bang something out, which Miller did by flipping the basic concept of Hitchcock's Psycho.

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None of the promotional materials for 'Night of the Lepus' showed the "monsters." The producers thought it would turn off potential viewers. (I guess as opposed to the actual movie turning off the viewers. How much drugs do you need to take to green light a 'horror' film based on bunnies?)

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House on Haunted Hill (1999 version) Geoffrey Rush was never meant to look like Vincent Price. The original screenplay described Stephen Price as a regular looking businessman. Rush didn't care for this, so he suggested that his character look like the film director John Waters. The director agreed to test this look out. After his transformation, he ended up looking so much like Vincent Price the director decided to keep the look.

I love Geoffrey Rush, i walked past him on the street a few weeks back, didn't have the balls to say anything, or even if i did i don't wanna be one of those guys, a tip of the hat would have been fun though.

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In, Return of The Living dead (1985)--- The eye-test poster in Burt's office actually reads "Burt is a slave driver and a cheap son of a bitch who's got you and me here" if you put the letters together.

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^^Haha, I'm gonna have to check that eye-test scene out now!

When one theatre goer wrote to Alfred Hitchcock to complain that ever since he and his wife watched Psycho she had became terrified of taking a shower Hitchcock actually wrote back and suggested he take her to be dry-cleaned!!!

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did you know that all of these actors James Mason, Stacey Keach, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas and Peter Falk were all considered for the lead role of John Verney that eventually went to Richard Widmark in Hammer studios last horror film before they closed in the 1980's " To The Devil A Daughter" (1976) in contrast Christopher Lee was the only choice to play the film's villian.